George Lassos The Moon

September 18, 2007 10:54 AM

Mare Tranquillitatis outside Flagstaff. "With high explosives, they terraformed a lunar surrogate right here on the surface of the earth." The excellent Pruned reports on the earth-bound moon model. USGS report.
posted by OmieWise (16 comments total)

I'd never seen Pruned before - very cool blog.
posted by OverlappingElvis at 11:04 AM on September 18, 2007

To NASA's many achievments, we can add important contributions to golf cart science.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 11:07 AM on September 18, 2007

cool!
posted by cowbellemoo at 11:18 AM on September 18, 2007

Wow. Pruned is great!
posted by brundlefly at 11:19 AM on September 18, 2007

Wow, interesting story and great site.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 11:31 AM on September 18, 2007

Metafilter: golf cart science.
posted by CynicalKnight at 11:40 AM on September 18, 2007

Great site and worth subscribing if only for this.
posted by DU at 11:47 AM on September 18, 2007

Ha! I knew that moon landing was fake.

This was a great Pruned entry, Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat at 11:50 AM on September 18, 2007

"It's what we call a shake and bake colony."
posted by ao4047 at 12:49 PM on September 18, 2007 [1 favorite]

Wow very interesting!
posted by Rancid Badger at 1:14 PM on September 18, 2007

Is the site still there? Can I visit the ruins of the moon?
posted by A189Nut at 3:45 PM on September 18, 2007

Edgar Montrose would approve.
posted by tommasz at 4:22 PM on September 18, 2007

Luna-formed I would think.
posted by bystander at 4:59 PM on September 18, 2007

I could have sworn that in aerial photography of the air base at Groom Lake, Nevada, I saw something really similar to this. Of course, maps.google is giving me nothing to support this memory.
posted by quin at 5:16 PM on September 18, 2007

I think I found it here.
posted by Big_B at 7:14 PM on September 18, 2007

Whoa... what a neat site! I'd also be curious to hear of the site is still there...
posted by ph00dz at 10:43 PM on September 18, 2007